A17216:164
The old faith an evident probation out of the holy scripture, that the christen…The olde fayth an euident probacion out of the holy scripture, that the christen…
The old faith an evident probation out of the holy scripture, that the christen faith (which is the right, true, old and undoubted faith) hath endured since the beginning of the world. Herein hast thou also a short sum of the whole Bible, and a probation, that all virtuous men have pleased God, and were saved through the Christen faith. 1547. Myles Coverdale.The olde fayth an euident probacion out of the holy scripture, that the christen fayth (whiche is the right, true, old and vndoubted fayth) hath endured sens the beginnyng of the worlde. Herein hast thou also a short summe of the whole Byble, and a probacion, that al vertuous men haue pleased God, and wer saued through the Christen fayth. 1547. Myles Couerdale.
London : W. Hill, 1547?
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Thus through Christ Jesus is all fulfilled that the prophets prophesied1 of him a fore, thus is he become y• salvation of all faithful believers, even the lamp of God, which hath been sacrificed since the beginning of the world that is, this is he, whose power and deliverance hath cleansed all them, that ever put their trust in God through the blessed seed. Herein now is the right true •aluacion, this is the sum of the right & perfect religion. Who so perverteth this, from him shall God turn him self, who, so addeth ought unto this, to him shall God add his wrathful hand: who so taketh there from, his life shall God ••nishe, But blessed are they, which walk in this simplicity & cleanness, & continue so unto ⟨image 60⟩the end even they that hear gods word, & do thereafter whose only hope is Jesus Christ. This only true and ever during salvation would he to be showed and declared to all nations, which came to save all nations: but he would it should be declared by the preaching of the holy gospel, and through the ministration of the hol• sacraments: And therefore by his life time he did chose Apostles, whom he received to be witnesses of all his doctrine & miracles, informing them diligently, & held nothing back from them. For he sayeth unto them: Ye are my friends, if ye do all that I command you, I will hence2 forth call you no more servants, for a servant wotteth not what his Lord doth But I have called you my friends, for all that I have heard of my father have I opened unto you. Joh. •v. But for as much as they yet lacked understanding & were forgetful and had ever strange imaginations of the kingdom of Christ, therefore when he now ascended unto heaven, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the holy ghost: whom he also gave unto them upon the fiftieth day after his resurrection, that is upon the tenth day after his ascension even the fifteenth day of May: by the3 which holy ghost they being illuminate spake with all manner of langag, and were mindful of all that the Lord had commanded them aoe, For the holy ghost did not endue them with a new